Justise Winslow, the 6-6 small forward ranked No. 9 among Sporting News’ Top 25 prospects for 2014, announced that he’ll attend Duke next year, giving coach Mike Krzyzewski three of the top nine players in next year’s recruiting class.

Winslow, from St. John’s High School in Houston, chose the Blue Devils over Arizona, Florida, UCLA and Texas A&M and is joining center Jahlil Okafor (No. 1), point guard Tyus Jones (No. 2) and shooting guard Grayson Allen as part of the ’14 class. Okafor and Jones, along with Okafor’s father, had been publicly pressuring Winslow via Twitter in the last several days to come to Durham. All three recruits took an official visit to Duke in late October, and all three wore the same Duke T-shirt courtside for a Blue Devils exhibition game, raising speculation that they already had vowed solidarity.

Whatever the case, Winslow makes Duke’s No. 1 ranked recruiting class even better. It’s not quite as strong as what Kentucky pulled in for its 2013 class, with five of the top 10 recruits in the country, but it is nonetheless remarkable.

Duke announced that it has signed all four players, with Krzyzewski saying he's "ecstatic" about his team's haul.

“Grayson Allen committed to us very early," Krzyzewski said. "We believe he’s an explosive wing. Terrific offensive and defensive player. We consider Jahlil Okafor as good a big man as there is in the country, but not just a big man, we think he’s a great basketball player. He’s had an amazing amount of experience playing for the United States and for a great high school program.

"In Tyus Jones, I think we have the best point guard in the country. Someone who has won state championships, USA championships and is the consummate leader on the court. Justise Winslow is a great wing player. He is a guy that can guard every position and is an amazing rebounder and scorer.

"The great thing about all four of the kids is that they want to share a spotlight and they want to be on a great team. They’re team first guys, even though they have this excellent amount of individual talent.”

Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy saw Winslow play in June and July, and he gave this analysis at the time.

“Winslow does depend on his athleticism an awful lot, but he is becoming a proficient 3-point shooter,” DeCourcy wrote after seeing Winslow play in July. “He didn’t shoot many jump shots at either the trials or the tournament for the FIBA U19 World Championship, but neither did he merely hang around. Winslow was one of the top defenders and a major contributor to the U.S. world championship.

“With such a tremendous motor and taste for D, Winslow can fit comfortably into most any program.

“At Peach Jam we saw him with his peers and kept wondering if his career track might be more along the lines of what Ron Artest (now Metta World Peace) has achieved. There’s such a strong physical resemblance between the two, and it’s easy to see Winslow developing into that sort of defender. With Winslow hitting 7-of-13 from 3-point range and averaging 4.3 assists, that’s exactly the player he resembled in South Carolina.